MR. FRASER IN LONDON

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 June 1944, Page 2

MR. FRASER IN LONDON

CUP FOR R.N.Z.A.F.

(Official News Service.)

LONDON, June 15. The Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser) spent to-day in London +^ d further discussions with the cna cellor of the Exchequer (Sn Jonn Anderson), and also with the £>ri tish Chiefs of Staff. , . „ • As a token of the admiration in which New Zealand airmen are neio, the R.A.F. has presented the R.N.Z.A.F. with a gold cup. It was handed to Mr. Fraser at a ce 16 .? 1 at the New Zealand Forces Club Ims evening, for him to take to the Dominion, where the Governor-Gen-eral will be asked to present it formally to the R.N.Z.A.F. The cup was given to the R.A.F. by Wing Commander E. J. R. Hack, who was present with Mrs. Hack at the ceremony. Mrs. Jordan, Air Commodore Olson, and Brigadier Park were also present. „ , The cup was handed over to Mr. Fraser by Air Marshal Sir Bertine Sutton, Air Member for Personnel, who said that the R.N.Z.A.F. was represented on almost every fi o nun to front in the world, and New Zealanders had won more than , bUb decorations, including two V.C. s. 1 nen newest achievements had been inthe Pacific, where the way in which they had overcome tremendous technical and geographical difficulties showed on what sound foundations the R.N.Z.A.F. had been built. He mentioned his association with New Zealand flyers, and the fact that An Vice-Marshal Isitt had been a Hight commander in his own squadron in the last war. Mr Fraser, in accepting the cup, said New Zealand was grateful lor the assistance her Air Force had invariably received from the H.a.i ~ and was proud that her own men were carrying their share of winning the air war. _______